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FRED L. OLE BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA.

TlhtE-GHAIN CARRIER.

This invention relates to an improved tire chain carrier for motor vehicles, being a division of my prior application tor a similar invention, iiledldarch 28, 1925, Eierial No. 19,028.

The invention seeks, among other objects, to provide a device for carrying a seto'l tire chains upon one of the running boards of a vehicle. 1

The invention seeks, as a further object, to provide a device wherein the running board will be equipped with anchoring devices, and wherein the pouch employed will be equipped with fastening devices engageable with said anchoring devices for securing the pouch upon the running board.

And the invention seeks, as a still further object, to provide a device wherein the anchoring devices upon the running board will be so arranged that the pouch maybe disposed in various positions with respect to the running board to facilitate the placing of the chains in the pouch or the removal of the chains therefrom.

Other objects of the invention, not above specifically mentioned, will appear in the course of the following description.

lln the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing, in full lines, one way in which the pouch may he carried upon the running board and illustrating in dotted lines, the manner in which the pouch may be swung down so that the chains may be removed therefrom.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing, in full lines, the pouch lowered so that the chains may be withdrawn therefrom and illustrating, in dotted lines, the manner in which the pouch may be carried beneath the running board.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary elevation show ing the pouch in connection with one of the rear wheels of the vehicle and illustrating the disposition of the pouch when lowered for the removal oi? the chains.

lEigure a is a' fragmentary perspective view showing the manner in which the pouch may be conveniently arranged upon the run ning hoard to receive the chains.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary elevation showing another way in which the pouch may be secured on top of the running board.

in carrying the invention into etiect, I employ a substantially rectangular pouch of appropriate dimensions. This pouch may Divided-and this application filed October 7,

be oi canvas or other approved material, and normally closing the pouch is a closure flap 11 integral with the back wall of the pouch and equipped with buckles 12 for engagement with buckle plates 13 on the front wall of the pouch for securing the flap closed. Extending transversely within the pouch is a center partition 14 as well as a back partition 15, dividing the pouch into a plurality ott pockets to receive the tire chains, and secured to the upper margin of the partition 1a is a substantially ill-shaped hanger 16 foldable into the pouch. Engaged with said hanger a handle 17 which, when the flap 11 is closed, projects through a suitable slot in the flap so that the handle may be readily grasped. Swingingly mounted at the upper rear corners oithe pouch is a pair of snap hooks 18 and 19, and similarly mounted at thelower corners of the pouch is a pair of like snap hooks 20 and 21. All of these snap hooks may be connected with the pouch by rings 22.

A motor vehicle runningboard is conventionally illustrated at Sunk into the rear end portion of the running hoard at its upper side are screw eyes 24L and '25 lo-' cated adjacent the inner edge of the board, while a like screw eye 26 is disposed opposite the screw eye 24: near the outer edge of the board. Depending from the lower side of the hoard near its inner edge, are screw eyes 2'? and 28, and arranged opposite said screw eyes near the outer edge of the board is a depending screw eye 29 and a screw hook 30. Between the screw eyes 27 and 29 is a depending screw hook 31, and between the screw eye 29 and the screw hook 30 is a depending screw hook 32. As shown in dotted lines in Figure2, the pouch may he carried beneath the running board by engaging the hooks 18 and 19 with the eyes 27 and 29 and engaging the hooks 20 and 21 with the eye 28 and book 30, when the pouch will he swung beneath the running board by said hooks. Accordingly, when it is desired to apply the chains, the hooks 20 and 21 may be disengaged from the eye 28 and hook 30, when the pouch will swing down to the position shown in full lines in this figure of the drawings and in Figure 3, so that the cover flap 11 may be thrown back and the chains withdrawn from the pouch, the pouch being suported in such a position that the chains may, as will he perceived upon reference to Figure 3, be applied about the wheels of the vehicle as the chains are withdrawn.

In Figure 1, I have shown one way in which the pouch may be carried on top of the running board. As illustrated, the hooks 18 and 19 are engaged with the eye 29 and hook 230 while the hook 20 is engaged with the eye 24. Thus, by releasing the hooks 19 and 20 the pouch may be readily swung down to the dotted line position shown and the hook 19 engaged with the eye 27, when the pouch ill be suspended beneath the running board, ready for the removal of the chains tl'ieretrom. It preferred, the hook 1k may be engaged with the eye 26 and the hooks 20 and 21 engaged with the eyes 2i and for securing the pouch on top of the running hearth the hook 19 being engaged with the hook 30.

The hanger 16 also provides a conrenient means for suspending the pouch from the running board, this hanger being, after the flap 11 has been thrown back, engaged over the running board for supporting the pouch in substantially the position shown in Figure 2, when the tire chains may be withdrawn from the pouch and applied to the vehicle Wheels, or, the hanger may be engaged with the hooks 30 and 32 for supporting the pouch at the outer edge of the running board in substantially the position shown in Figure 4 when the chains may be readily deposited in the pouch. Also, the handle 17 may, after the flap has been thrown back, he engaged with the hook 31 for supporting the pouch in substantially the position shown in Eigure 2 so that the chains may be withdrawn from the pouch and applied. in Figure i, I have shown the llOOh'S 1S and 19 of the pouch engaged with the eye 29 and hook 330 of the running board for supporting the pouch at the outer longitudinal edge of the running board in position to receive the tire chains. its will be perceived, the chains may, when the pouch is thus swung from the running board, be readily deposited in the pouch.

Figure 5 shows another way in which the pouch may be carried upon the running board. in this instance the pouch is folded medially and the l100lr It), fit) and ill are :ill en a ed with the screw ores Lil and. 26 of the rui'ming board so that the pou h is thus effectively anchored to the runn ng lflClTl to rest on lop thereof.

iii-laying thus described the in rent ion, what l claim is:

The combination with the running board. ol a motor vehicle provided along the roar nuu'ginul edge, at the top and at the bottom. ith. ai'ichoring devices, of a tire chain car rier provided at its tour corners with lhSltlling elements loosely connected thereto, and other anchoring devices along the outer marginal edge of the running board, where by to selectively secure the carrier upon or against the bottom side oi the running;-

board.

In testimony whereot i allix my si nature FRED L. VOHDEMFloLDE.

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